The Cost-of-Living Crisis Explains Everything

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/biden-harris-economy-election-loss/680592/

by newzee1

8 comments
  1. I dare even say, the housing crisis is the everything crisis

  2. That and Kamala was unpopular in 2020 primaries and had low approvals as VP. Presidency is a popularity contest. Top it off with how she could only speak to white women. She lacked the talent and charisma to build a coalition of voters.

    Plus Democrats lost the election when they covered for Biden who didn’t drop out of running in mid 2023, when it was clear to everyone he was having trouble with his age. This cost them a primary to find a popular candidate.

    Now white as bread Democrats are mad at Latinos for not voting for their poorly planned election.

  3. It does, and it doesn’t.

    We need to get rid of FPTP and evolve to ranked choice voting everywhere possible.

    And we need to triple check the paper trails for every election, given the stakes, incentives, and resources involved.

    Elections have paper trails for very good reason, and we do actually have to check the paper trails rather than blindly trusting all the results.

  4. Telling half the country a false story doesn’t help.

  5. Who knew that gaslighting people for four years telling them that the economy is doing great while they see their standard of living decline would backfire!

  6. The Cost of Living crisis is the plan, depressing wages of the consumers while raising prices, creates maximum profit.

    The problem is that about two hundred million Americans have very little “free to spend” money at the end of the month. Half of the number are short for necessities every month. 

    While they blamed Biden-Harris, the problem is unrestricted capitalism, draining workers paychecks for building shareholders value.

    Neither Democrats or Republicans have the any desire to move the economy towards balance, so a crash is inevitable.

    My crazy solution is a tax surcharge on any company, based on the number of workers not making a living wage, regardless of they are full or part time. 

    A company’s best tax position would be more full time jobs paying a living wage. CEOs and CFOs would need to manage that critical balance to maximize shareholder value. 

    Working Consumers would benefit, government welfare benefit spend would drop. People trying to manage 2-3 part time jobs would find more full time opportunities. 

  7. This is all Trump’s fault
    =

    Everything was perfect before Trump stole the election from Hilary.

    ———-

    … and now YOU PEOPLE let Trump steal the election from Harris…

    **You get what you deserve.**

  8. kamala’s political handlers were convinced that voters were more concerned about abortions being denied in someone else’s state than making the rent/mortgage payment this month.

    “it’s the economy, stupid”

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